Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-05

decided that neither party was entitled Il
g seat and a new election was ordered
is the one instance OF g seat being taker
from a sitting member.
! OF 1858 House bills which became laws
275 We're of more or less public nature
OF the remaining 776 bills granting pen
sions Of relief 10 specially designated
persons, 30 became laws without the ap-
prevail OF the President 0f the total
number of bills which passed the Senate,
800 became laws, including ll5 of a pub
lie and 205 of strictly private nature.
AN UNDECIDED QUESTION.
WASHINGTON, March +-Mr. Tucker OF
Virgins, from: the committee on Judiciary,
submitted 8 report TO the House last
night upon the resolution requiring the
committee to inquire whether treaty
which involves the rate OF duty TO be i'm
posed on any imported article can be
valid and binding without the concurrence
OF the House of Representatives. The
report is very voluminCus. treating the
legal and constitutional features of the
question and recommends the adoption
OF the following resolutions:
l. That the President by and with the
advice and consent Of the Senate cannot
negotiate treaty which shall be binding
on the United States whereby du-
ties on imports are to be regu-
lated either by imposing or RENTING, in
creosing or decreasing them without the
sanction of an act OF Congress,
and that the extension Of the term for
the operation OF the original treaty or the
convention with the government of the
Hawaiian Islands will not be binding on
the United States without like sanction
which was provided for in the original
treaty ana convention, and was giver by
act of Congress.
2. That the President is respectfully re-
quested TO withhold final action upon the
proposed convention and to condition its
final ratification upon the sanction of an
act of Congress in respect to duties upon
articles to be imported from the Hawaiian
islands.
The report and resolutions were laid
over and ordered printed.
COMBINATIONS
WASHINGTON, March THE Senate
mas confirmed the nomination of Captain
A. w. Greeley 10 be Brigadier-
and James NJ. Trotter to be Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia.
stmastsrs-Cleveland OHIO, W. W.
Armstrong; at Vicksburg, Miss, William
Groome.
The following nominations We're con-
tirmed by the Senate this morning:
Samuel f. BGrtch, Register Of the Land
Office at Valentine, Neb. Henry r. Har-
ris, Georgia, Third Assistant Postmaster
General; ID. II. Maury, Virginia, Envoy
Extraordinary ard Minister Plenipoten-
tlaTy OF the United States to the Republic
of Colombia; s. G.. Glover of Arlington,
Receiver of Public Money at Valentine,
Neb. James NJ. TrOtter, Massachusetts,
Recorder of Deeds in the District of
Columbia; 6. w. Julian, Irvington, Ind,
of New Mexico; Chaun-
cey Il ShultZ, Missouri, Assistant Treas
urer f the United States at st. Louis
NJ, L. Allison, Grand Junction, Col, Re-
celver of Public MoLey at Gunnison;
AdOlphus W Greeley of the Fifth Cav
airy, Chief Signal officer with the rank OF
Brigadier General; David X. futile of
Ne 7ada, Meter and Refner of the Mint of
the United States ct Carson; Captain
James Il. ellis of the District OF Column
bia, Commodore in the navy: Commander
James o. Kane, Indiana, Captain in the |
navy from January 90, 1887, subject to |
Lieutenant Commander John McGoWn, |
Commodore in the Navy;
Lieutenant Colonel VIM. D. Whipple, As !
sistant Adjutant- General, with the rank |
of Colonel; Lieutenant Colonel ChRun-
cey McKeevcr, Assistant Adjutant- Cen
ersl, with the rank of Colonel; Major |
Oliver D. Green, Assistant Adjutant Gen
ersl to be Assistant Adjutant-GeneraI,
with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; Ma
iGr Henry G. Wood, Assistant Adjutant-
General to be Assistant Adjutant Gen
eral, with the rank of Lieutenant Colo
lel; Reuben A. Reeves, Palestine, Tex,
Associate Justice of the Supreme court of
he territory of New Mexico; Commo-
lore Lewis A. Kimberly of Illinois to be
Of the Navy; Earnest A.
finland Of Minnesota, Receiver of Pub
ic Money at Taylor's Fails, MINI.
FAILED TO BECOME LAWS.
WASHINGTON, March THE regular
bills, which failed OF enact
nent were the fertilization bills for both
the river and harbor bill of
he present session, which was not
igned by the President, and the de ticiency
ill On which the confer" nee report was I
ot submitted in time for action. The |
allure of ;he fertilization bill was due to s
decided difference Of opinion between :
he cOnferees of the two Houses.
Fifty bills in addition to those which
ecame laws and those vetoed were sent
o the President, but were pocketed by him
n the adjournment OF Congress, and
therefore, failed. The most important are as
Dllows: The river and harbor, to prevent
be employment of convict and alien labor
q puolic works, to open to settlement
be public land strip south of Kan
as, the O'Neiil labor arbitration
i'll for the settlement Of controversies 6
etween interstate railroads and their '
Employees, the Morrison surplus resolu /
ON 10 annex part of Idaho to Washing {
on territory, the Northern Pacific for '
9Iture bill and the bill to repeal the 8
resumption of the homestead, timber !
ulture and desert land laws. The bill
additional aids to navigation c
t the mouth Of the Mississippi river
lied in conference, while the bill to Gre /
te department of agriculture and labor l
as killed by the inability of its friends 9
} send it to conference. About 1900 +
Ills and joint resolutions which passed '
lie House failed Of action in the Senate, $
ome of which, however, were de- !
lated by adverse committee reports t
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